Medicine, culture, travel, food, healing, and human stories from my archive. Start with a trail, search for a memory, or move by year.
Roads, meals, clinics, and human encounters.The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
NUTRITION AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS This blog is to break your stereotypic view of what the North American Indians consume. When I was preparing to write this blog, I thought…
BLONDE HAIRED GYPSY AND OTHER AMERICAN INDIAN TALES When I showed a photo of a Breton family get together, taken in a village in Brittany in France, to an American…
I wrote this while I was doing my post graduate studies in Medical Anthropology at the Brunel University of London, England photo taken in front of Beth Shalom Synagogue in…
PHILOSOPHICAL COUNSELLING AMONG AMERICAN INDIANS On my way over to the Indians, from Miami to Dallas, I was on American Airlines, and the flight attendants up front were very friendly.…
AMERICAN INDIANS AND THE ISRAELI NOBEL LAUREATE, DANIEL KAHNEMAN When I began working with the Indians, it looked like they were intent on educating this “tribal” boy into the ways…
In just over three hundred years, and in some cases even less, the American Indians had been forced to change their lifestyle, like no other people on earth. Forced to…
JEWS OF MALABAR, A MAKE DO MENORAH AND THE CHANUKKIAH LAMP AMONG THE INDIANS This invitation arrived from Cochin, India today: As the Jewish community is dwindling in Malabar, more…
INDIAN PHILOSOPHY TRANSLATED INTO REALITY: THE CASE OF MEXICAN KIKAPU/KICKAPOO: KICKAPOO TRADITIONAL TRIBE OF TEXAS KTTT Philosophy as a guide to living- an essence of ones contentment, the feeling of…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE SELF AND SOCIETY There have been Prophets and False Prophets. None of our ancestors caught on to the false prophets but some…
WHO ARE YOU? MEDITATING BY THE MOUNTAIN SPRINGS IN THE FRENCH ALPS I think it was VSNaipaul,one of the greatest artists of the English Language when it comes to its…
WHO BROUGHT THE SCRIPT TO SOUTH EAST ASIA: HINDUS OR BUDDHISTS IN OTHER WORDS, WHO IS THE REAL BUMIPUTRA? I was merrily walking along the street in front of the…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST Starting the day off with readings from Yoga Sutra, commentary by Yogendra from Yoga…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE The alarm went off at 0600 AM, I had already packed my bags, so it was easy to be ready to leave…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE FOOD FASCISM Is a fashionable term used, especially among the Middle Class Literati to denote imposing the unscientific but popular health/diet systems…
When you enter the Indian country, you are in a totally different world. Each time I feel I am entering a ring surrounded by wise men and women and if…
Whereas Emirati or Pakistani general population have less knowledge about what constitutes Health and how to avoid being Sick, Americans are inundated with information about health and are cognizant of…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE YOGA AND NUTRITION: PHILOSOPHICAL COUNSELLING AMONG NATIVE INDIANS OF AMERICAS Yoga Sutra 1.15 of Patanjali states: Disinterestedness is the consciousness of the…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE SYMBOLIC TALK AMONG AMERICAN INDIAN PATIENTS: A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER NEEDS TO BECOME CULTURALLY COMPETENT. A Group of young girl athletes from…
